Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-08-29

There ls a woman in the Joliet hospital
who has been asleep over two hundred days.
She has escaped great deal.
It is expected that five thousand doctors
will take part in the medical congress which
opens at Washington September 5. What
will the sick people do?
The appeal of the Chicago shippers Of
dressed meat to the interstate commissions
ers against the alleged unjust discrimination
of the trunk lines has general interest. The
price of western cattle has fallen about one
half in the last three or four years, while the
consumer must pay as much as ever for beef.
The dressed beef men complain that the rail-
roads have Disseminated against them in the
matter of rates. The freight rate on dressed
beef in refrigerator cars is 65 cents per hun
dred pounds, while for other provisions in
similar cars the rate is only 35 cents. The
dressed beef men say it costs the railroads no
more to bring the beef than to trans
port provisions, and that the rates should be
the same.
Rev. William Franklin Davis of Boston
who is in Jail for preaching on the Common,
thinks he is martyr. For the third time
this year he has been before the Municipal
court on the same charge, and his defense is
that he regards it as his "duty as a minister
of the Lord Jesus Christ to preach his gos-
pei at any such place as the people will gath
er," and he regards the law which forbids it
as breach of the peace. The judge told
him that the law in question was 'fs highly
proper provision, and any person can, by 60
ing to the city hall, procure license for any
proper purpose. This is not the first time
you have have been here, and it seems to
me to be a defiance" AFR. Davis was COM
mitted in $400 for trial in the Superior
court, and went to Jail rather than ask his
friends to go bail for him. Mr.. Davis is
evidently not very wise martyr.
Rhode Island has an interesting case of ex-
pert evidence. The authorities have seized
forty nine kegs of different makes of beer,
any they have been delivered to the State as
sayer. Upon his report as to their respecr
tive percentages of alcohol, and consequent
intoxicating qualities, the State must depend
for its evidence. The brewers and dealers
lack faith in the value of expert evidence as
to the strength of beer, and in anticipa-
ton of the State assayer's report, one of the
brewers has made an experiment. He drew
three bottles of beer from the same cask,
numbered the bottles, and sent them to an
official analytical chemist for examination.
The chemist was led to infer that there were
three different kinds of beer, and to the
amusement of the brewer and his lawyer the
report showed different analysis for each
bottle, and varying quantities of alcohol.
The Railroad commissioners of Massachu'
setts are attending to business. They re,
mind the railroads that passenger trains
must be manned by trusty and skillful
brakeman in number equal to one for every
two cars in the train; also that car-heatine
by the common stove is no longer permitted
by law, and that the methods of heating
adopted must be approved by the board
The Emerson, Martin and Sewe1 systeml
| have satisfied the board that the use O.
steam from the locomotive promises bette
results in the four great elements of safety
comfort, simplicity and economy than an.
other device now known, and the boart
hereby approves of the rnakhod of heatinj